There are level 30 Earrings, Shields, Belts and Mantles that all trigger on Latent Effects. These all correspond with a job. All of them activate via Subjob. Nothing else will trigger these to activate, NOT main job, ONLY subjob. The newest jobs (Blu, Cor, Pup) do not have these items (as of 7/27/06).

There are other Latent effect items that trigger at different things such as Low HP, <100% tp, a bard song on you, This is NOT one of those items. The only thing that activates these items is your subjob.

sorry to ask this....but how do you know what latent effects need to be triggered? and how they are triggered? if i am a bard, does this mean that the mercenary's shield would not work for me, even though i can equip it?

have yet to see one on sale.... i know it would be going for around 100k (which i dont have) but still... i dont even know which BCNM30 to do to get this one T.T

btw, the reason i want it is cuz i solo as a thf/brd ^^ i love doing: Sneak Attack, wait a bit, Foe Lullaby, run behind mob, Steal (which seems to have 90% success from behind when target is asleep), then 2nd Sneak Attack....

works every time ^^

having this shield would be nice too while farming ^^ maybe i'll get a couple skill ups cuz of it ^_^

Perhaps for those people who think RDM/BRD is a good combo, except your parrying skill won't ever come into use unless you're being hit by the mob, and a RDM/BRD probably wouldn't be tanking (or even in the front lines)